Have you ever planned your meals?

Meal planning may be the answer if you’ve ever worried about what to feed your family at the last minute or when you are rushing out the door.

Experts agree that breakfast is the most important meal of the day – especially for children. If you’re a mom or dad who wants to give the kids (and yourself) nutritious and delicious breakfasts, there are a few things that might make your mornings go smoother and faster.

Meal Planning…

Planning your meals and prepping ahead are the secrets to making your family life easier.

On busy mornings when you barely have time to look in the pantry for ideas, it’s nice to have a plan.

Pre-planning the breakfast meal can make the usual morning hassles run much smoother and you’ll feel better all day because you know you and your family are getting the fuel needed to perform the best they can – whether in school or at the job.

Find a good variety of recipes and prepare them ahead.

Recipes…

Your first step in breakfast planning and prep is to gather some favorite recipes that you and your family will enjoy.

Use ingredients such as whole grains, low-fat dairy and protein and fruits and veggies to ensure a healthy and tasty breakfast to tide you over until lunchtime. This will keep you from using the drive-thru at a fast food place and spending money needlessly, and increase productivity and alertness.

Groceries…

Make a list of ingredients you’ll need for the recipes and pay attention to the staples that you can purchase in bulk and the sales, if any, on items you’ll need. This will help immensely when you head to the grocery for the ingredients.

Then, take a few minutes to make sure you have the storage containers and bags you will need for your meals.

Prep Ahead…

An evening or a day (depending on the prep times for recipes) should be all you need to prep the breakfast meals. Prepping may consist of boiling grains such as oatmeal, slicing and washing fruits, and cooking some complete breakfasts in advance so you can add fruit and other items to make it complete.

Meal Planning Ideas…

Tip #1 A good idea for an easy prep breakfast which can be grabbed at the last minute before you leave in the morning includes baked oatmeal, a great source of fiber and a good tool for lowering cholesterol.

Tip #2 Or use your blender to whip up delicious fruit smoothies using fresh fruits such as bananas, mango and blueberries. Add extra nutritional value with veggies such as cucumber and yogurt or coconut milk to make it creamy.

Tip #3 Bagels are exceptional breakfast choices. Make or add low-fat spreads to enhance the flavor and nutritional value or add an egg, spinach and turkey bacon to make it tasty and filling.

Done for You Meal Planning…

Home cooks all over the world want to simplify mealtimes.

If that’s you, hang on. Your life is about to get a lot easier.
Last year, the team at Ultimate Bundles unveiled the Healthy Meal Planning Bundle, and it checked all your meal planning boxes:

• Save money and waste less food
• Thousands of recipes so you’d find ones that fit your family
• Healthy meal ideas and plans for no-guilt mealtimes

But this year’s edition of the Healthy Meal Planning Bundle is even better.

After feedback from last year’s customers, the Ultimate Bundles team created this bundle to have a clickable, convenient index. You’ll find all the recipes in one place, plus you can ignore recipes that don’t fit your family’s diet or preferences, or even find recipes that will help you use up that last bit of produce.

You also get nutritional info for every recipe, so you’ll know the macros, fiber, and fat grams for everything.

They’ve even standardized every single recipe, and put them all into 12  categorized, beautifully formatted and easy to use digital cookbooks, AND made more than 30 unique and practical meal plans  to go with them (grocery lists and prep plans included).

You can get 1072 recipes, 40+ meal plans, meal planners and printables, plus eBooks and eCourses on topics like budgeting, flavor and teaching kids to help in the kitchen.

It’s a no-brainer deal.

If you’re ready to stick to your food budget, whip up healthy meals, and quit wasting food, check out the Healthy Meal Planning Bundle:

Some of the Breakfast Chef’s Favorite Things included in the Bundle:

• Recipes (12 categories with 1,072 recipes)
• Breakfast (124 recipes)
• Kids Cook Real Food: Knife Skills & Safety Lessons by Katie Kimball ($20.00)
  Online access to 5 videos + PDF lesson plans and printable memory tools that will help you teach your kids knife skills and safety at every age.
• Complete Family Meal Planner Set by Laura Rizer ($2.99) – The Complete Family Meal Planning Set is a comprehensive organizer with tools for meal planning, grocery shopping and more.
• Freezer Meal Blueprint: The Framework to Make Ahead Meals Without Wasting Your Weekends by Elisa Giorgio ($19.00) – The Freezer Meal Blueprint is a step-by-step framework to stocking your freezer with make ahead meals your family loves, without wasting an entire weekend to prep them.
• Free trial to Real Plans, an affordable, fully customizable digital planner and grocery shopping app that makes the whole process easier and faster!

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